Munich/Lisbon. After a substantial success of last
year’s event, BMW will once again partner with a Web Summit in
Portugal this year. From 5-8 Nov 2018, a concentration will not usually be
on showcasing a latest technologies and products: Professionals and
high-potentials from a IT margin will also have a eventuality for
one-on-one conversations with employees from Critical TechWorks, a
corner try between a BMW Group and CRITICAL Software. Under the
sign #yournewjob, they will have a possibility to get to know the
association improved and request for one of many sparkling new jobs. At its
mount in a Altice Arena BMW will also be presenting a new BMW 3
Series Sedan with a BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant, which
recently had a universe premiere during a Paris Motor Show. Another item
on a bulletin will be a keynote debate of Christoph Grote, Senior
Vice-President BMW Group Electronics, on a Auto/Tech TalkRobot
Stage on Thursday, 8 Nov during 2 pm.

#yournewjob: Critical TechWorks seeks uninformed talents.

For BMW and Critical TechWorks, a Web Summit 2018 is not just
about digital creation and technology, though also recruitment. The
Lisbon and Porto-based corner try already employs around 200
people. That figure is set to some-more than double by subsequent year, with a
workforce of adult to 500 by a finish of 2019. Interested margin are
speedy to speak to Critical TechWorks employees directly on the
mount and learn some-more about opposite areas of activity: They might even
go home with an appealing pursuit offer. Candidates who stir with
their skills in a coding competition will be offering an on-the-spot job
interview, hold on a muster drift in a BMW X2. Applications
are generally welcomed from professionals who can, among others,
raise a group as a “Data Mastermind”, “UX Design
Alchemist”, “C++ Guru” or “Java Full Stack Hero”.

#yoursummit: BMW and Critical TechWorks as partial of the
community.The corner mount serves as a executive meeting
indicate for meddlesome visitors. A vast series of online services,
information about a discussion programme and activities relating to
a 2018 Summit are accessible underneath a hashtag #yoursummit. This also
includes exam drives in a all-electric BMW i3 (combined fuel
consumption: 0.0 l/100 km; total energy consumption: 13.6 – 13.1
kWh/100 km; total CO2 emissions: 0 g/km), as good as a specially
gathered party and information programme with talks on current
developments in a automotive attention and a margin of
digitalisation – for example, with publisher Jonathan Openshaw and
blogger Sam Fane.

Innovations live: new BMW 3 Series Sedan and BMW Intelligent
Personal Assistant.BMW will denote a leading
purpose in a margin of digital services and connectivity during a Web
Summit 2018 with a new BMW 3 Series. The centrepiece of the
seventh-generation sports sedan is a new digital BMW Operating
System 7.0 arrangement and control concept. With calm that can be
personalised and away selected, this focuses some-more than ever on
a motorist for optimised multimodal operation.

The BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant opens adult totally new
possibilities for communication between motorist and vehicle. The adaptive
digital messenger can simply be activated by observant “Hey
BMW”. Familiar with all automobile functions, it is means to explain
them (“How does a High-Beam Assistant work?”) and operate
them as compulsory (“Hey BMW, I’m cold” will spin on a air
conditioning, for example). It can also answer questions about the
stream automobile standing (“Hey BMW, are a oil levels OK?”).
The BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant relates patterns and habits in
a suitable context – for example, it can spin on a chair heating
in a morning on a approach to work or recognize visit destinations
(“Take me home”). Its capabilities urge with every
interaction. One singular underline other digital assistants do not offer
is a choice of giving a digital messenger a name.

In his keynote debate (Thursday 8 November, 2.00 p.m., Auto/Tech
TalkRobot Stage), Christoph Grote, Senior Vice President BMW
Group Electronics, will uncover how new connected automobile technologies are
changing a attribute between people and a vehicles they drive.
Vehicles are apropos some-more and some-more digital, connected and
intelligent, and can be personalised to an ever larger degree. This
increases a functionality and, during a same time, a complexity of
vehicles as a whole. In sequence for record to do a desires and
needs of people in a best probable way, it is required to make new
functions elementary to operate. The pivotal is to pattern record to be
intelligent, predictive, adaptive, discerning and always centred on people.

Over 70,000 visitors are approaching to attend a Web Summit 2018, one
of a world’s biggest record conferences. Over a four-day
event, some-more than 1,200 speakers will try several aspects of
digitalisation, yield information on new IT developments and discuss
a implications of technological swell on multitude in a present
and in a future.

Media inquiries: We are happy to set adult particular interviews with
a experts on a subjects of Critical TechWorks, automobile electronics
and IT. Please hit Michael Ortmeier to make arrangements.